HIDDEN MARAUDER CHAPTER 8

"Yea—wait, what?" Sirius said and frowned at James then at Remus.

"One of us, become a marauder" James said looking back at Sirius.

"Are you crazy? She's a girl!" Sirius pointed out.

"So what?" James answered, confused.

"She's not even an... uh you know what" Sirius said.

"Then we'll turn her" James said.

"What if she refuses?" Sirius asked.

"He has a point, James" Remus shrugged.

"Then we'll not force her, but we'll invite her though. Anyone who doesn't dessert our Moony is of us" James said.

"She'll gonna refuse, I know it" Sirius said.

"We haven't asked her yet!" James said

"Well I think she'll be thrilled" Remus said evenly.

"Glad to have your girlfriend one of us, huh" Sirius smirked.

"Whatever" Remus scowled

After three days, Remus took his full recovery from the fresh wounds of his transformation. With the help of the ointment made from wolfs bane plant, his wounds were now scars. Good thing he was able to cope up with his homework with the help of Centaury. She helps him with all the books he needed. More and more people were able to see Centaury hanging out with Remus those days. The question that roamed around was "who is she". Some girls look at her in deepest loathing, because there's no other girl that could get that close to Remus.

Meanwhile, the cold air of November was lurking around the corners. That means, Quidditch is in the air! Much for James' excitement, they were being trained hard by their captain and James took it very seriously. Sirius and Remus were in the team too, Sirius is one of the beaters and Remus, one of the chasers. Centaury is a fan of quidditch, she watched every game of the season. This usually amuses Lily, she usually was Centaury's companion whenever Centaury watches quidditch games. But sometimes Lily was irked because Centaury dragged her along the quidditch field to watch the Gryffindor practice. James was ecstatic; he was surely to have Centaury around so that he can make a move in front of Lily. This might be a start of something.

"Oi prongs! Will you pay attention, antler-head!" Sirius called metres away from James. James was busy looking at Lily.

"Will you be quiet; I'm trying to look for the snitch!" James said and waved at Lily. Lily just shook her head and faced her book though she was glaring at Centaury. Sirius looked to where James was looking, Centaury was there. Sirius was quite irritated by this lady. It seems that she was trying to get in the group, Remus must've told her about it. Now about Remus, Sirius thinks Remus was going to have a girlfriend much to Sirius' displeasure. Don't get him wrong, he just want his friends to be around him. He only got his friends... no other.

After dinner, the marauders headed for the Gryffindor common room. They had a rough day because of quidditch practice. Sirius was walking towards the stair when he saw Centaury whispered something in Lily's ear. Lily's expression became anxious and nodded. This intrigued Sirius, what was Centaury up to?

"Oi, Padfoot... coming?" James said. Sirius looked at him then at Lily... to his surprise, Centaury was gone and the common room door opened and closed.

"I'll catch you later" Sirius said and walked towards the door. He couldn't see anyone, but he noticed a kind of distortion in the air. It was like wearing the invisibility cloak. Sirius glanced at his wrist watch, it was 10 minutes after 9, and no one is allowed to go out. But yet, Sirius must see who's this mysterious person wearing the cloak.

Sirius then decided to follow the distortion, but he kept his distance until they reached the entrance of the castle. No one must know he got out; he then transformed in his animagus form and followed the human scent. Sirius sniffed and tasted the scent; fresh strawberries. Sirius followed the scent until it leads him to green house 3. The door was ajar, Sirius slipped past inside unnoticed by the flying bubotuber. Wait... flying bubotuber? Sirius noticed its pus was being squeezed. Someone is squeezing the bubotuber. Then, his ears picked a sound... Sirius looked around and saw Filch coming. Sirius went to the flying bubotuber and whispered.

"Filch is coming!" Sirius said. He heard a soft squeak and a girl with long blond hair revealed. Centaury looked at the door and grabbed Sirius. Next thing Sirius knew, he felt coldness crept in his body and someone dragged him towards the castle. A moment later, he felt warmth back again.

"What is the world are you doing?" Centaury snarled.

"I just saved you from detention!" Sirius snarled back.

"You know I was completely invisible!" Centaury yelled.

"Yeah like the flying bubotuber is really explainable!" Sirius said.

"Well, well, well... enjoying our stroll, are we?" A silky voice said. Sirius and Centaury turned and found a Slytherin Prefect.

The news about Sirius and Centaury's being caught spread in the castle. A lot of theories on why they were strolling at curfew hours formulated and most of them are nasty. The teachers were displeased by their actions. So Sirius and Centaury were given a detention for Filch. They were to arrange some detention file records accordingly and clean the stockroom.

"Aww come on Padfoot, it's just a detention!" James said, trying not to laugh at Sirius being caught.

"Yeah, a little detention wouldn't hurt!" Remus said cheerfully.

"I'm okay with the detention, the thing is, I have to spend 4 hours with that ungrateful girl" Sirius spat while gnawing his chicken leg.

"Hey, you were minding her business" James said.

"Like hell filch will not catch her" Sirius said and looked at Centaury who was looking daggers at him.

"Yikes! Her glare's really something!" James said and Remus gulped his pumpkin juice in trouble.

"Don't mess with the quiet people" Remus said.

The detention was going to start at exactly 8 o'clock in the evening at Mr. Filch's office. Sirius and Centaury went to his office and they were brought to the stock room. Filch assigned Centaury to arrange the files from a-z while Sirius was to clean the items in there without magic. Filch locked the room and told them he'll be back in four hours, So the two went on working. Centaury noticed as she arranged the detention files, the surnames Potter, Black, Pettigrew, Lupin, and Prewett held the most number. The rank 1 is Black and Potter.

"You guys make a lot of detentions" Centaury said softly. Sirius looked at her; she has no longer those killer eyes, but some soft expression.

"Yeah..." Sirius said being able to calm himself. After all, Centaury's a girl.

Centaury was finished arranging the files while Sirius was still cleaning the last instrument. Centaury read the detention titles of the marauders. Sirius watched her as she read those files. Weird... she's smiling. Then at last, Sirius was already finished with the instrument. They still have an hour before Filch return. Sirius decided to see what she was reading. He looked and saw his surname together with James.

"That's our detention record" Sirius said.

"Yes" Centaury said and continued reading. "You guys really like to make some mayhem"

"Well, what's Hogwarts without a little trouble?" Sirius chuckled and looked at the files. "But you know, there are some mischief that are not caused by us, like this one" Sirius picked up one file that labelled 'placed bulbadox powder in slytherin student's school robes'. "It's not one of our works and we were placed in detention. Another is this one—we never even set a fire salamander in the great hall, and we also never caused the explosion in professor slughorn's class. There are other things... and they caused us troubles. We ended up in detentions, Moony always say to be patient."

"You must be irritated" Centaury said.

"No, these mayhems caused the slytherins to go and cry" Sirius laughed remembering snape and his 'friends'. "I must say, that hidden marauder is great"

"You know... it was I who caused those mayhems" Centaury said smiling. Sirius looked into those hazel eyes again.

"How?" Sirius asked.

"I was invisible..." Centaury said smiling. "No one really knew me then"

"But why?" Sirius asked, shocked by this revelation.

"Those slytherin gits bully other students. I must make them suffer in the worse" Centaury said.

"Then... the pus was intended for them?" Sirius asked and Centaury smiled.

"Yeah... I'm sure you heard what they did to Mary McDougal..." Centaury said frowning.

"Yeah, that was horrible" Sirius said.

"That's why I wanted to do the revenge on them..." Centaury said.

"But why were you angry at me?" Sirius asked.

"Because, you discovered me and my mischief" Centaury shrugged.

"Then, I'm sorry" Sirius said. His heart skipped a beat when she chuckled.

"I didn't know you could say sorry" Centaury said. Her eyes danced as he looked into them. The strawberry scent became too captivating.

"I..." Sirius uttered but he woke up from his reverie. No! This can't be, Sirius Black? Saying sorry to the ungrateful girl? Has the world come to its end? But Sirius couldn't help it, she was... charming.

"Can you promise not to tell this to anyone?" Centaury said. "Especially that deal you've got"

"How... how did you know about the deal?" Sirius said awkwardly.

"I got my own ways" Centaury said. "And Remus didn't tell me" Sirius smiled. James was right, she was fitted to be a marauder.

"Centaury... would you like to be a marauder?" Sirius asked her. Centaury looked at him in utter disbelief. He is inviting her to become one of them... She was grateful.

"I would love to" Centaury said and Sirius grinned. "But I rather be a hidden marauder so I can continue on ruining the Slytherins secretly"

(A/N: Wah! sorry for long update! been busy lately cuz of work and lenten season... hehehe R&R guys, and hope you enjoy reading :D)